INTERVIEW
"It was the adults who put this in me." How did Michel Piccoli, monument of the French theater, who died on Monday at the age of 94, started playing? In college, when he was a boarder and only nine years old. At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, the actor had spoken of his beginnings with humor on Europe 1.
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"I was someone who was rather dumb"
"I was in a college and the teachers used to give a theater performance, performed by the students," said Michel Piccoli. "It was a pretty wonderful college, boarder, but there was a former actress, a geography teacher who had been a theater director ... It was semi-professional amateur."
In the play, a tale by Andersen entitled New Habits of the Emperor , the future actor played the main role. "I was someone who was rather mute in front of adults, in front of people my age, I was absolutely like a fish in water, already cabotin, to play the leading role in this play", remembered- there in There is not only one life in life .
"Finally, the adults listened to me"
After the performance, Michel Piccoli's mother had congratulated her son, before asking him if he hadn't been afraid to play in front of an audience. "And I would have answered him: 'No, on the contrary'. Why? Because finally I spoke and finally the adults listened to me and remained silent. I had grown up."
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This feeling, the actor tried to keep it throughout his career, he assured then. "I think that for all men, for all women, becoming someone experienced is very dangerous. I know many people who have settled in their experience, in their success, in their knowledge, in their comfort. (...) But I prefer to be a plumber looking for a lot of things than a tidy astrophysicist. "